Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-10-22
THE CREAM OF THE MAILS.
All Sorts Of News and Gossip from v,
rfOus Quarters,

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All Sorts Of News and Gossip from ya
riOus Quarters.
1t is said that the English cooperative,
have tank whose transactions amount te
SeO,CcOOOOa year. They have 1,4OO store.
and do a business of s15O,OOO,OOO year
Their 100000 members receive an annual
profit Of s45,COO,OcO Their profits during
the past twenty-fcur years have been $3.50.
100000
Ihe Russian minister of railways has an.
pointed commission to select method Of
lighting railway cars with electricity, and
all the principal companies will hereafter be
compelled to use the light on passenger
trains. The South Russian Railway has for
scme time used electric light on all its fast
trains from Odessa to Keiff, and the Cars
special trains have been 80 lighted for long
time.
The address to be presented to the Presi-
dent by British memberspf Parliament. in
favor of settling international disputes bv
arbitration, hears the signatures of two
hundred and thirty members It has been
Illuminated on vellum, and is a work of art.
1t is six feet in length, with decorated bor-
ders, and at the head is an alIegorical design
representing union of the two countries.
There will be meeting of Ex-Confeder-
ates and others in Raleigh, N c., in few
days to consider the establishment of a home
for North Cardinals disabled and infirm
Confederate veterans The Raleigh News
and Observer expresses the hope that there
will be full attendance at the meeting and
that some plan of action will be agreed upon
that will result speedily in the establishment
of such home as is needed.
One of the marked peculiarities of United
States Senators from the south is their un-
willingness to remain at their homes after
having once lived in Washington. Senators
Call, Of Florida, Pugh and Morgan, of Ala
bama, Cockrell, of Missouri, and Jones, OF
Arkansas, have been absent from the Capt.
tai scarcely day since Congress adjourned.
Some of them make up all sorts of excuses
for remaining, while others frankly assert
that they like Washington better than any
other place on earth
The famous floating island of the Derwent-
water, England, has come to the surface
again after long disappearance This is
mass of decaying vegetation forming layer
of peat, on top Of which is a thin covering of
clay bound together by the roots of vegeta-
tion. Itrests on the clay bottom of the lake,
but sometimes some force, supposed to be in
the gases generated by the decaying matter,
causes it to rise to the surface Its extent
sometimes reaches half an acre, and it rises
and falls with the water, until it finally sinks
out of sight again, to be gone probably for
several years.
The State of Michigan is preparing to send
to Washington statute of Lewis Csss, to
take its place among the large number now
in position in Statuary Hall, at the Capital.
Each State is entitled to send statutes of
two OF its distinguished citizens to be added
to the collection. A score of State are now
represented, and before many years, the room
which is the old Hall of Representatives,
will be well filled with the representations in
bronze or marble of distinguished Ameri-
cans. Ths model of the Cass statute was
made in Paris by French. The statute is to
be seven feet high, of white Italian marble,
andwill cost $4,000.